Is green tea really what it claims to be?!


Question: And is (no name) green tea, at sixteen dollars a box, better than cheap green tea?
Does green tea really lower blood pressure, lower risk of heart disease, reduce the risk of cancer, bring wealth, true love, long life, and happiness, cure every disease known to mankind, and all of the other claims? Please note that I am being a bit sarcastic here, but some of the claims seem pretty exaggerated.


Answers: And is (no name) green tea, at sixteen dollars a box, better than cheap green tea?
Does green tea really lower blood pressure, lower risk of heart disease, reduce the risk of cancer, bring wealth, true love, long life, and happiness, cure every disease known to mankind, and all of the other claims? Please note that I am being a bit sarcastic here, but some of the claims seem pretty exaggerated.

Hi Jean. I just ran a search of the world's scientific literature on Pubmed/Medline. I found 2734 scientific papers on Green Tea. (If you are interested, you can go there to read the research.)

Yes, there is a lot of scientific support for many health benefits associated with Green Tea.

Best wishes.

yes it's true, but a lot of something can be bad too. so don't drink too much

ya

Well, it claims to be green, and it does a pretty good job at that.

So yes, it does do what it claims.

it makes a hard man harder... LOL

yes it will give you more enegery and help you loose weight.

no its not really green

yes it does do what is calimed to do and more

cheap green tea is exactly the same. don't get ripped off

Yes, it's actually healthy for you because it's hot and it cleans our your system.

Just don't drink too much of it.

I don't think it does all those things, but it sure tastes good!!!

yes it does do those things. its healthy for you but it might stain your teeth :D

yes

I really like Arizona Blueberry Green Tea. It is carbohydrate free and no calories and it has helped my diabetes since I can drink all of it I want. I hate tea but love this.

it is hard to say, all the people i know that drink it got hit by a truck

Well, I don't think it looks that green, so there's a bit of a questionable statement to start with.

Much better than the sodas that you're probably drinking.

I drink nothing but water and green tea (without sugar or honey).
My health is very good.

Medical science does support the role of antioxidants in preventing (or slowing the process of) many diseases, and green tea has lots of them. As for whether there are benefits to premium brands, I think they taste better than a lot of the cheaper ones. To me, the cheaper ones taste like the scrapings from under the lawn mower.

Yes it is what its made out to be. I get the tea bags at Walmart,"Uncle Lee's organic green tea" also I get NV pills at walmart,the one that Carmen electra advertises. I lost 20 lbs,along with walking and eating less fat.

I agree with you. Maybe it shoul be prescribed by your doctor if all that was true. But definetely some tea taste better than others and provide benefits not regognized by our western medicine.

The pricier green tea IS healthier. It does contain more of the ingredients necessary to promote health AND to simply taste better. Apparently you need at least 4-8 cups a day to get the most benefits.

Think of wine. There is little doubt that cheap, homemade, brew-it-yourself swill does NOT come close to the complex and much sought-after characteristics of a more expensive bottle of wine. You get what you pay for.

it gives us antioxidant which boost our immune system does all that healthy stuff but all that true love and wealth is bullshit....doesnt really matter which one you buy, green tea is green tea....buy the cheap stuff, the only difference will prolly be the sugar which will make the drink taste different to an expensive one.

IT SPEEDS UP YOUR METABOLISM, so if you have it after a meal, or after eating sweets or general over-eating, it helps prevent diabetes, and helps prevent or reduce obesity. It also has anti-oxidants to help prevent cancer and degeneration of cells and heart tissue. A magic substance in it is Theophyline, which is also present in the usual kind of tea, but not as much as in the unfermented version which is called "green tea". Theophyline is a bronchial-dilator, which also helps reverse or prevent asthma, and assists in recovery from bronchitis and pneumonia.

All the other stuff like inducing "wealth" and true love and happiness cannot be promised truthfully as a result of green tea, if you see that promise, its marketing-bunk. At the same time, it won't inhibit or prevent wealth, love, happiness either. If those things happen, or don't happen, its merely co-incidental.

I'm not sure about all the claims, there is certainly a great deal of exaggeration, generally one study will support a claim and then the next will find nothing at all. However I drink a lot of green tea (up to 9 cup measures a day) and I find it very invigorating and great for headaches, I think that there are certainly health benefits associated with green tea, after all it has been drunk to promote good heath for centuries in many different countries.
With green tea you really do get what you pay for, I drink very high quality Japanese sencha, it costs a small fortune but it's worth it for me. Good green tea is really really green, what I'm drinking now is grass green and tastes beautiful and very fresh.

The cheap brands like Lipton and Snapple that you find in grocery stores usually contain additives and sugars. I would buy a better brand than those.
But I don't think you have to pay top dollar either. I would buy the green tea you make yourself.

WHOA NOW KIMOSABE : Let's take
this one at a time. Green tea is high
in antioxidants. $26.00/box is waaaaay
out of line! I buy all my teas from
stashteaco.com They sell fresh,
imported teas from all over the world.
You can buy bulk very reasonably.
Green tea is the tea that has been dried only. Black tea is the tea that
has been steamed and dried. There
are many varieties of tea and they
come from plantations mostly in
China/India and Japan.
Green tea does none of the other
things you mentioned. What it DOES
DO is help your own body to be
stronger and have a stronger immune
system. I drink teas because I love
teas, I don't drink them for the health
benefits, altho they do have some.

About the only useful purpose I've found for green tea is it's fat burning qualities. For us type twos it's a damn good idea. Burning fat instead of carbs is much easier on our strained pancreas. I buy the green tea caps at Costco. Saves a lot of brewing time and cash.

BTW, I'm off the Metformin. Have been since Dec. 13th... Yay!





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